It's my native language, so I have no trouble doing it. Actually, I've done the first arc already to see if my Photoshop skills are up to it, and I think the results are okay. Should I post it, does anyone want to see? Does anybody even speak Hungarian around here? I can (and would happily) do more if there's an audience.

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Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:04 pm

valerio

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Re: Hungarian Translation

The Broken Fox Wrote:

Hi, is anyone interested in a Hungarian translation?

It's my native language, so I have no trouble doing it. Actually, I've done the first arc already to see if my Photoshop skills are up to it, and I think the results are okay. Should I post it, does anyone want to see? Does anybody even speak Hungarian around here? I can (and would happily) do more if there's an audience.

I don't speak Hungarian, but I WANT to see what you've done! YAY!

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Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:15 pm

Tha Housefox

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Re: Hungarian Translation

valerio Wrote:

The Broken Fox Wrote:

Hi, is anyone interested in a Hungarian translation?

It's my native language, so I have no trouble doing it. Actually, I've done the first arc already to see if my Photoshop skills are up to it, and I think the results are okay. Should I post it, does anyone want to see? Does anybody even speak Hungarian around here? I can (and would happily) do more if there's an audience.

Interesting; while I know Hungarian is an Eastern European language, and probably Germanic, it looks to have some french influence. You wouldn't happen to know the history of the language, would you?

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Wed Dec 29, 2010 4:24 pm

The Broken Fox

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Re: Hungarian Translation

Teh Brawler Wrote:

Interesting; while I know Hungarian is an Eastern European language, and probably Germanic, it looks to have some french influence. You wouldn't happen to know the history of the language, would you?

Well, I must admit I'm not all that well informed in linguistic history, but what I can tell you is that Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language, not Germanic. Unfortunately I don't speak French so I can't compare in detail, and even though there are some similarities to German (I speak German too), Hungarian has fundamental differences from both. We did borrow a lot of words from other languages though... If you would like to read up on history, I'm afraid I have to refer you to this webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hungarian

I have no idea whether anyone else is reading these besides me and valerio, but at least he's exited about it, or so it seems... Anyways that, and the fact that it's a lot of fun for me to do these translations means I'll keep doing them! For now I have the one-offs after Arc 2, but I'm doing Arc 3 already, so stay tuned for more! Oh, and valerio? Thank you for the feedback and encouragement! Also I'm sorry I'm a little slow, but I only just noticed you're Italian. Hurray for being in the same time-zone!!!

And if there happen to be any lurkers out there, let me know you're reading? Send me a sign or something? You can tweet me @brokenfox if you're not registered on the forum.

No EARTHLY idea what it all means, but I have enjoyed figuring out how to pronounce it all

Two questions: In "Nem, a teljes macska is baj lenne" the word "felinophile" appears to be written in English. Is this supposed to be so?Also in "Ez meg honnan jött", second panel, second speech bubble it says, "a dolgot akkor az az ö bajuk".

Thanks for adding a new translation to our forums. I always enjoy reading through them all.

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Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:48 pm

The Broken Fox

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Re: Hungarian Translation

Obbl Wrote:

No EARTHLY idea what it all means, but I have enjoyed figuring out how to pronounce it all

Two questions: In "Nem, a teljes macska is baj lenne" the word "felinophile" appears to be written in English. Is this supposed to be so?Also in "Ez meg honnan jött", second panel, second speech bubble it says, "a dolgot akkor az az ö bajuk".

Thanks for adding a new translation to our forums. I always enjoy reading through them all.

Thanks, I would love to listen to your attempt at pronouncing Hungarian text! Or better yet, maybe I should record a few of these comics... That way all of you could read and-or listen and still have no idea what it all meant!

Also you're right, I will correct 'felinophile' to the correct Hungarian spelling in the next update, I just forgot about it when writing the translation. The other sentence is, however, grammatically correct. [Hungarian grammar lesson] The double usage of the articles 'az' and 'ez' is common in Hungarian. In this sentence, the first 'az' acts as the demonstrative determiner (that), and the second is the definitive article (the). Hungarian grammar requires that I include the article, in English that would be like saying 'that's the they're problem'. Of course, English grammar omits the article 'the'. [/Hungarian grammar lesson]

Ooooh, thanks for the grammar lesson My reading is very halting and slow. And I keep forgetting to pronounce S and A correctly (I keep saying Sz and Á)Though I did finally manage to get Gy down pretty well.

But I still love reading through these because it forces me to think outside my normal sphere of language and make sounds I'm not used to making. Great stuff!

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Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:20 pm

The Broken Fox

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Re: Hungarian Translation

As always, thank you for your support guys! I'm happy you get some entertainment from my translations!

Also I need to find some handwriting-like font for the Spot (superdog) comics. Any suggestions? Font must include all accented letters for obvious reasons (á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü, ű). Except maybe ű and ő, the font I'm using for the normal comics right now doesn't have those so I write ö and ü instead, but I figured it won't show much.

Interesting, from this point of view, Hungarian has some similarity's with German...Anyway, great job!

I would like to see the Russian translation of the comics some day.

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Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:54 am

The Broken Fox

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Re: Hungarian Translation

valerio Wrote:

Hungarian fits Bino when he goes ranting.

Oh, it was a lot of fun translating Bino's lines! Especially the ones when he flies off the handle completely before Grape whacks him on the head with the pan. Sometimes I need to make little adjustments to the structure and order of the original text since English and Hungarian are very different, and it just wouldn't sound good if I just translated without thought. Some of the puns I had to rethink too, for obvious reasons. Still, I try to stay as close as possible to the original script since I'm not rewriting, I'm just translating.

valerio Wrote:

Also, Dog = Kutya, it sounds so DDAAAWW!

I'm happy you find it DAAAWWW worthy, even if it is such a common, everyday word for me. So how about these:

Huh, I don't really see the similarities to German that they speak of In all honesty, the spelling reminds me more of PolishThough the pronunciation reminds me of nothing I've ever heard

However, I do agree that these are fantastic! Though I can't wrap my mind around the poppies/puppies part

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Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:39 am

The Broken Fox

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Re: Hungarian Translation

Obbl Wrote:

Huh, I don't really see the similarities to German that they speak of In all honesty, the spelling reminds me more of PolishThough the pronunciation reminds me of nothing I've ever heard

However, I do agree that these are fantastic! Though I can't wrap my mind around the poppies/puppies part

Thank you!

Yes, Hungarian can do that to you! As for the 'poppies' pun, unfortunately that's a wordplay I couldn't properly replicate in Hungarian. Oh, the nuances of the original script! *sigh* Instead I went with Sasha making a common Hungarian grammar mistake on her sign. I had her mistake the letter 'ly' (yes, that is considered a single letter of the alphabet in Hungarian) for a 'j' in kölyök. Those two are basically used as the same letter, same pronunciation, the only difference being learning which words are written with which letter. Learning that is a good part of elementary grade grammar lessons here! And when Fox shouts to her to correct it, she thinks the word should be written with a 'ly' next to, not instead of the 'j'. It's the best alternative I could come up with. I'm sure the other translators face similar challenges...

Hun:Na EZ szép! És én itt azt hittem, hogy én vagyok az egyetlen Magyar errefelé. Ajánlom, hogy el legyél telve magadtól mert csakis MIATTAD regisztráltam pedig megvetem a fórumokat. Amúgy BAKTER EMBER nem hiszem el, hogy az egyetlen másik PONT megelőz a fordításban. Komolyan, én is gondolkoztam a fordításon, de mindig is bajom volt egy munka megkezdésével még ha a képességeim jók is hozzá. Bár látom, hogy egy ideje nem frissítettél és az elkészült sávok is le lettek véve a hálóról szóval nem tudom mi a helyzet a projekttel? (????: Na igen, gondolom PICIT sem feltűnő, hogy Nagyeszű itten kétszer írta le a dolgokat, de ez elsősorban kedvesség, hogy halj Magyar szót is itt, másodsorban valami érdekes a külsős barátainknak és csak harmadsorban kérkedés a fordításával. Ó és rólam ne kérdezzétek, jobb az úgy. )---------------------------------------------------Eng:Now THIS is pretty! And here I thought that I'm the only Hungarian around here. I recommend that you be full of yourself because I only registered BECAUSE OF YOU though I despise forums. By the way DANG IT MAN I can't believe that the only other one JUST beats me in the translation. Seriously, I also thought about the translation, but I always had a problem with starting up a work even if my abilities are good for it. Although I can see that you haven't updated in a while and the finished strips were also taken off the net so I don't know what's the situation with the project? (????: Yeah, I think it's not conspicuous one BIT that Bigminded 'ere wrote the stuff twice, but this is firstly kindness so you can hear Hungarian word here as well, secondly it's something interesting for our outsider friends and only thirdly bragging about his translation. Oh and don't ask him about me, it's better that way. )

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